1896.] 



IjIzabds of the GBNUa bubmias. 



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Eremias liochneli, Stejneger, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xvi. 1894, 

 p. 719. 



Eremias striata, Bouleng. Ann. Mus. Genova, (2), xvii. 1896, 

 p. 18. 



Fig. 4. 



Eremias striata. 



Head once and a half to once and three- fourths as long as broad* 

 Upper head-sliields striated, but more coarsely than in E. hrenneri, 

 in this respect intermediate between the latter and E. smiilm; 

 frontonasal a little broader than long ; anterior supraocular not 

 bordered with granules, the two others bordered with granules 

 except on their horizontal sutures ; interparietal small but much 

 larger than the occipital, from ■n hich it is often separated by an 

 additional small shield ; an elongate shield on the outer border of 

 the parietal, variable in length and sometimes so short or broken 

 up as to be indistinguishable; temporal scales granular, obtusely 

 keeled ; subocular bordering the lip, between the fifth and sixth or 

 sixth and seventh upper labials ' ; the three anterior pairs of chin- 

 shields in contnct^ Collar with 9 to 12 shields, usually 10 or 11. 

 •Dorsal scales rhomboidal, juxtaposed, keeled, 53 to 67 across the 

 middle of the body. Eight longitudinal series of ventral plates, outer 

 narrow ; 25 to 28 transverse series. A large median prseanal, some- 

 times followed by another or a pair, the three forming a triangle. 



' Between the fourth nnd fiflli on one sido in one of llie Bpeciniens described 

 by Peters. 



^ Eremias liochneli is founded on a specimen which, in my opinion, repre- 

 sents an individual anomaly in the mental pholidosis, as Mr. Slcjneger himself 

 has suggested. The first lower labial meets its fellow behind the symphysial, 

 having fused with the first chin-shield, whilst the third chin-shield has also 

 fused with the corresponding lower labial. 



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